Today is Thursday, April 3, the 94th day of 2008. There are 272 days left in the year.
1657 _ English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown
1910 _ Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mount McKinley, climbed
1948 _ Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)
1958 _ Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana
1968 _ North Vietnam agrees to meet U.S. representatives to set up preliminary peace talks
1977 _ Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's first meeting with U.S. President Jimmy Carter
1978 _ The European Common Market and China signs a trade agreement
1982 _ The U.N. Security Council demands Argentina's withdrawal from Falkland Islands
1986 _ U.S. national debt hits $2 trillion
1991 _ The U.N. Security Council adopts a Gulf War truce resolution